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... early history of an English Borough and its political immunities ; to examine the quali- fications by which its inhabitants , in their capacity as bur- gesses , were distinguished from the rural population ; and thence to show how ...
... early history of an English Borough and its political immunities ; to examine the quali- fications by which its inhabitants , in their capacity as bur- gesses , were distinguished from the rural population ; and thence to show how ...
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... early history of the borough as exist in France , but we have , nevertheless , many proofs , in the Roman inscriptions which frequently come to light , that our existing municipal customs were undoubtedly in practice among the Romans ...
... early history of the borough as exist in France , but we have , nevertheless , many proofs , in the Roman inscriptions which frequently come to light , that our existing municipal customs were undoubtedly in practice among the Romans ...
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... , or had presented peculiar advantages for defence , and which the Saxons having founded , had been invested by them with the forms of the Roman model . For , as Professor Pearson observes , in his " Early and Middle Ages , 17.
... , or had presented peculiar advantages for defence , and which the Saxons having founded , had been invested by them with the forms of the Roman model . For , as Professor Pearson observes , in his " Early and Middle Ages , 17.
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... early period . Canterbury we find as early as the year 805 governed by a prefect or reeve , who is of sufficient wealth and influence as to be able to give lands to the monks ; and in the charter confirming this grant , there is a ...
... early period . Canterbury we find as early as the year 805 governed by a prefect or reeve , who is of sufficient wealth and influence as to be able to give lands to the monks ; and in the charter confirming this grant , there is a ...
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... earliest periods ; Palgrave , as heavily weighted with legal bias , is not far behind in his too favour- able estimation of them ; while Hallam , the most calm and unprejudiced of constitutional or historical writers , takes a more ...
... earliest periods ; Palgrave , as heavily weighted with legal bias , is not far behind in his too favour- able estimation of them ; while Hallam , the most calm and unprejudiced of constitutional or historical writers , takes a more ...
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Page 89 - And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Page 86 - And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying; Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David ! my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
Page 225 - Whatever makes this mortal spirit feel The joy and greatness of its future being? There lives nor form nor feeling in my soul Unborrowed from my country. O divine And beauteous island! thou hast been my sole And most magnificent temple, in the which I walk with awe, and sing my stately songs, Loving the God that made me!— May my fears, My filial fears, be vain!
Page 168 - I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Page 219 - In all the successive courses of lectures delivered by me, since my first attempt at the Royal Institution, it has been, and it still remains, my object to prove that, in all points, from the most important to the most minute, the judgment of Shakespeare is commensurate with his genius, — nay, that his genius reveals itself in his judgment as in its most exalted form.
Page 211 - On the contrary, reason is the power of universal and necessary convictions, the source and substance of truths above sense, and having their evidence in themselves.
Page 220 - No work of true genius dares want its appropriate form, neither indeed is there any danger of this. As it must not, so genius cannot, be lawless: for it is even this that constitutes it genius — the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
Page 88 - And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
Page 221 - Shakspeare followed the main march of the human affections. He entered into no analysis of the passions or faiths of men, but assured himself that such and...
Page 68 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.